Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.
I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
